In Chambers' view, cloud computing networks will start to mesh together.
When that happens, Cisco plans to hold the software and hardware together
through its networking products and allow different clouds to integrate and
work together. In a way, this expands on Chambers'
vision of more collaboration and use of Web 2.0 tools in the enterprise.
The cloud can also allow enterprises to develop and deliver software.

"The cloud will move from being largely proprietary, in one type of
approach, to clouds interfacing with clouds and then how do you manage it?"
said Chambers.

"You can't do this without a network, and you can't do it without
intelligence in the cloud as well as intelligence at the edge of the cloud,"
Chambers added. "This has to do with reasons of identity, reasons of security
and reasons of performance. When you go across these clouds, from the home
networks to mobile networks to fixed networks and into the enterprise networks,
that's what we do well, and you have to be able to do it in an architectural
and efficient way. We're very bullish on what clouds mean in the future."

To show how important applications such as WebEx are to Cisco, Chambers said
the company's own internal use has increased 2,500 percent since January. With
that, Chamber added that Cisco also plans to offer more services in the cloud
during the next several years.

"We will do the exact same thing in Web 2.0 as we did in routing and
switching," said Chambers.